Sell your Golden Valley County mineral rights.

Golden Valley County sits on the Montana line in western North Dakota, and it is a Red River county rather than a Bakken county. The North Dakota Geological Survey has noted that Red River covers a far larger area of Golden Valley than the Bakken does, and the Bakken here is confined to the northeast corner. Development has been vertical, and the operator list is short: WGO Resources, Burlington Resources, Continental, White Rock, Granite Creek, Foundation Energy, and a handful of others.

This is a small county by production. Roughly 61 to 65 wells produce out of 378 drilled, with output peaking around 2000 and 2001 at just over a million barrels a year. That concentration cuts in an owner's favor when it comes to valuation, because a single good well matters and a county average tells you nothing.

Two title features are worth knowing. The Northern Pacific land grant checkerboard runs through the county, so odd sections carry reserved railroad minerals now held by corporate successors, which is why Burlington Resources appears as an operator. And the Little Missouri River forms part of the eastern boundary, carrying the same unresolved navigability and riverbed ownership question as neighboring Billings County. We will flag that rather than price around it.

Send us a legal description and we will run the wells, the formation, and the chain, free.